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Lunar AVI's Using RegiStax 5

(by Bob Pilz)

Final Thoughts

I have to admit
it. I actually enjoy
post-processing AVIs even more than recording them in the first place.
Finding
the best products and workflow provides continuous opportunities for
creativity. The workflow I’ve described in this article is always a
work in progress progress.

RegiStax R5 has fueled this process by providing significant
performance and functional enhancements that will be of use to lunar,
solar and planetary imagers. Check it out ! You may find that, like me,
you are glad to have kept your old AVIs so that they can be reprocessed
to yield even better results.Appendix – Batch Processing

R5 provides the means to automate quite a bit of the workflow I
described above. You can read the details of batch processing and the
individual commands in the help file. I will just show an example of what I typically
do.

I select, create/load an initial reference frame, scan frames and set
APs manually. Then activate a saved set of batch commands containing the
following:

·ALIGN

·LIMIT 450

·LOADWVS
DefaultLevel1SetTo12.wvs

·CREATEREF 100

·OPTIMIZE

·PAUSE

·STACK 400

·REALIGN

·OPTIMIZE

·PAUSE

·STACK 400

·SAVESTACK FilenameS400.png

·STACK 300

·SAVESTACK FilenameS300.png

·STACK 200

·SAVESTACK FilenameS200.png

·STACK 100

·SAVESTACK FilenameS100.png

The two PAUSE commands allow
me to inspect the difference graph for each AP in order to disable bad APs and
use the difference slider to eliminate frames that did not align/optimize
correctly.